David Prosser: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
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Invariably these days, its reports make depressing reading and yesterday’s audit of the main parties’ lack of candour about their plans for the public finances was no different. To offer a flavour of the challenge identified by the IFS, it says the Liberal Democrats – which, having declared plans for spending cuts of £15bn, can claim to have gone furthest – will need to find another £36bn of reductions by 2017. The IFS message is that no one is really being honest about the savage nature of cuts to come.
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